A35535:1605
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Hence Observe, first.
The first cause and spring of all our mercies is the graciousness of God. Or, All our mercies flow out from the grace of God.
The first cause and spring of all our mercies is the graciousnesse of God. Or, All our mercyes flow out from the grace of God.
That's the fountain, yea that's the Ocean which seeds and fills all the Channels of mercy, which stream to us, as our happiness in this world, and for our everlasting happiness in the world which is to come. All is of grace fundamentally, or because the Lord is and will be for ever gracious. Thus the Lord spake to Moses (Exod. 33.19.) I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious. My mercy shall flow our, when, and to whom, and where I please. And the proclamation which he made of himself in all his royal Titles runs in the same strain (Exod. 34.6.) The Lord, the Lord God, merciful, and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in ⟨p. 394⟩goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity. If we consider God, first in doing us good; Secondly, in forgiving us the evil which we do; Thirdly, in delivering us from the evils which we now suffer; Fourthly, in delivering us from the fear of future sufferings; all is from grace and from free grace. He doth us good though we are undeserving any good, that's grace, yea, he doth us good though we are ill deserving, and that's more grace. He doth all for us through grace, First, in spirituals, and Secondly, in temporals; not only do the good things of eternal life, but the good things of this present life flow from grace unto his own people. Not only the health of their souls, but the health of their bodies, not only deliverance from hell, but deliverance from sickness also, flow from his free grace in Jesus Christ. Therefore of all their mercies and salvations (both as to the foundation and top-stone of them) the people of God must cry (as the Prophet Zachery (Chap. 4.7.) foretells the people of God should say of that longed for deliverance, when that great mountain should become a plain before Zerubbabel) grace, grace, unto them: That is, grace hath begun them, and grace alone will maintain, continue, and perfect what it hath begun. As there is nothing in us (except our misery) which moves the Lord to begin, so there is nothing in us (but our inability) which moves the Lord to perfect what he hath begun. He seeth we cannot, and therefore he will perfect what he hath begun, and all this he doth that he may exalt his own name, and perfect the praise of his free grace towards us.